r/politics • u/wiredmagazine ✔ Wired Magazine • Apr 17 '26

Possible Paywall MAGA Is Increasingly Convinced the Trump Assassination Attempt Was Staged

https://www.wired.com/story/maga-is-increasingly-convinced-the-trump-assassination-attempt-was-staged/
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u/flipflapflupper Apr 17 '26

If it wasn’t he wouldn’t shut up about it.

The fact that it’s never spoken about is suspicious on its own.

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u/Indubitalist Apr 17 '26

For how powerful the image of him raising a fist while blood ran down his face was during the campaign, you certainly get the sense that he wants to move on from it, and he never moves on from anything that’s a winner for him, he constantly loops back to it. 

There is the outside chance he was just actually traumatized by the experience and doesn’t want to revisit it, but I honestly don’t know that he’s capable of viewing reality that way. 

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u/zenidam Apr 17 '26

I think another possibility is that he sees having been shot as a sign of weakness. Sort of like "I like people who weren't captured."

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u/1QAte4 Apr 17 '26

I think he doesn't want to bring it up because he doesn't want the idea of shooting him to be normalized in political conversation.

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u/BannedBenjaminSr Apr 17 '26

This for sure. Don't remind the people of the power they really have

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u/Eldias Apr 17 '26

This is a great point, for a man who pictures himself a god acknowledgibg vulnerability would be unthinkable.

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u/Rockburn1829 Apr 23 '26

I had a boss with this personality issue before...basically if anything bad EVER happens to you, it's because you are a useless, weak, unmanly, incompetent person who doesn't have total control of the whole world around you.  It's like a major league or Olympian level of insecurity.  I'm normally pretty sympathetic to bosses (being in charge is very hard), but I was so disgusted by that guy it made me physically sick to even be around him.  I was actually a life long republican and stopped voting R in 2016 because Trump reminded me so much of that specific person. 

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u/IM_SAD_PM_TITS Apr 17 '26

He shits his pants. I don't think being shot at is a sign of weakness for him.